The striate cortex is the first cortical visual area that receives input from the lateral geniculate nucleus in the thalamus. How various factors dynamically influence neuronal variability is a ...

By Balasubramani Paranthaman Sleep is a vital part of life, essential for both physical and mental well-being. However, sleep ...

A new study reveals that working memory limitations stem from learning challenges rather than storage capacity.

Little is known about the associated brain activation during these sleep rhythms, and even less about their functional implications. In this study, we investigated the brain-wide activation underlying ...

Working memory is what allows humans to juggle different pieces of information in short-term scenarios, like making a mental ...

Colored green above, a songbird's cortex, which dominates the bird brain ... It is a processing station between the thalamus (lighter blue), which collects and distributes sensory information ...

such as areas in the prefrontal cortex (involved in higher-level thinking) and subcortical regions like the thalamus and hippocampus (involved in emotion and memory), which are known to be ...

While researchers have long suspected the alphas originate in a brain region called the thalamus, the waves’ definitive source and function remain elusive, says Roger Traub, a mathematical neurologist ...

In particular, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex—a region responsible for higher-order thinking—and the mediodorsal thalamus—a brain area involved in filtering and prioritizing information ...